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Language development in children with recurrent acute otitis media during the first three years of life. follow-up study from birth to seven years of age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Göran Harsten ,
Ulrika Nettelbladt ,
Lucyna Schalén ,
Olof Kalm  and
Karin Prellner
Göran Harsten*
Affiliation:
Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Ulrika Nettelbladt
Affiliation:
From Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Lucyna Schalén
Affiliation:
From Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Olof Kalm
Affiliation:
Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Karin Prellner
Affiliation:
From Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
*
Goran Harsten, M. D., Ph.D., Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, University Hospital, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden.
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Abstract

From a cohort of 113 children, followed prospectively from birth during the first three years of life regarding different aspects of acute otitis media (AOM), two study groups were selected for the present investigation: 13 children with recurrent AOM (rAOM, i.e. at least six episodes of AOM during a 12–month period), and 29 children without any AOM episode. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possible effects of early onset rAOM on language development as assessed at four and seven years of age at phoniatric and linguistic examinations performed blindly. There were no differences between the two groups on any of the linguistic analyses performed, although the rAOM group manifested a somewhat better performance on auditory discrimination tests at four years of age. The results of the present study show that rAOM during the first three years of life, in otherwise healthy children, does not cause a detectable delay of language development at four and seven years of age.

Keywords

Otitis mediaLanguage development

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 107 , Issue 5 , May 1993 , pp. 407 - 412
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1993

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